From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, Snidely exclaimed wildly:   
   > After serious thinking Alain Fournier wrote :   
   >> Intuitive Machines had a lander touchdown on the moon a little over an hour   
   >> ago.   
   >>   
   >> Unfortunately communications with the spacecraft seem to be iffy.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Alain Fournier   
   >   
   > Faint signal detected after several minutes, with both ground and robot   
   > systems expected to cycle, perhaps several times.   
   >   
   > We're now about an hour into the IM/NASA post-landing news conference.  I've   
   > just got onto the stream, and a quick thumbnail scan doesn't seem to have any   
   > imaging from the lander ... I'll rewind and watch more carefully, but ....   
   >   
   > There's a hint where I jumped in that antenna orientation on the lander is   
   > part of the issue.   
      
   I've now gone back to the point where they talk about catching a toe   
   and tipping over and being propped up by a rock.  Might affect antenna   
   aiming.   
      
   > /dps   
      
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